1934
Born in San Francisco
1950
Attends California School of Fine Arts
1952
Attends Washington University School of Fine Arts of St. Louis
1956
Moves to Europe. Lives in Holland, Paris, and Rome
1964
Returns to the United States, settles in California
Receives Art in America “New Talent” Award
Receives Copley Foundation Award
1975
Moves to upstate New York
1981
Professor, University of Texas at Austin (through 2000)
2000
Moves to New York City
2001
Academy Award for Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Peter Saul: Flunking the Talent Test, Michael Werner Gallery, Beverly Hills
2023
Peter Saul, Venus Over Manhattan, New York
2022
Peter Saul: Early Works on Paper (1957-1965), Venus over Manhattan, New York
Peter and Sally Saul, Michael Werner Gallery, East Hampton
Peter Saul: New Work, Michael Werner Gallery, London
Peter Saul: San Francisco, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
2021
Peter Saul: New Paintings, Michael Werner Gallery, New York and Venus Over Manhattan, New York
2020
Peter Saul: Murder in the Kitchen, Early Works, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
Peter Saul: Art History is Wrong, Almine Rech, Paris
Peter Saul: Crime and Punishment, New Museum, New York
2019
Pop, Funk, Bad Painting and More, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse; Le Delta, Namur
2017
Peter Saul, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Fake News, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Peter Saul, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Peter Saul: From Pop to Politics, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles
2016
You Better Call Saul, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Inc., Moscow
Some Terrible Problems, Michael Werner Gallery, London
2015
Peter Saul: Six Classics, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Hall Art Foundation, Reading
Some Crazy Pictures, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
From Pop to Punk: Peter Saul, Paintings from the 60’s and 70’s, Venus Over Manhattan, New York
Relax in Electric Chair: Peter Saul at di Rosa, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa
2014
Figaro, The Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met, Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, New York
2013
Holy Moly, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Neptune and the Octopus Painter, VW (VeneKlasen/Werner), Berlin
Paintings from the 60s and 70s, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Peter Saul: Radical Figure: Paintings and Drawings from the 1960s and 1970s, George Adams Gallery, New York
2012
Peter Saul, Fondation Salomon Art Contemporain, Alex, France
Peter Saul, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2011
Stupid Arguments, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
2010
Fifty Years of Painting, Haunch of Venison, New York
Sheer Terror, Nolan Judin, Berlin
2009
New Paintings, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Praz-Delavallade, Paris
Peter Saul: Prints and Drawings, 1960-1975, George Adams Gallery, New York
2008
Peter Saul: A Retrospective, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
Peter Saul: Five New Pictures, Patrick Painter Gallery, Santa Monica
2007
Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva
2006
David Nolan Gallery, New York
Leo Koenig Gallery, New York
2005
Peintures, 1985–2005, Musée Paul Valèry, Sète, France
2004
Homage to Dalì, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Suburbia: Paintings and Drawings, 1965-69, George Adams Gallery, New York
2003
Drawings, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, California
2002
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
The Sixties, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva
2000
Heads: 1986-2000, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Galerie du Centre, Paris
1999
Retrospective, Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix-Chateauroux, Les Sables d’Olonne; Musée de l’Hôtel Bertrand, Dole; Beaux-Arts Museum, Mons
1998
Recent Drawings, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Paintings and Related Drawings 1960-64, George Adams Gallery, New York
1997
Galerie du Centre, Paris
Artpace, San Antonio
1996
Art World Portraits, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
Texas Gallery, Houston
George Adams Gallery, New York
1995
Peter Saul: Paintings 1963-1965, Turner, Byrne and Runyon, Dallas
Don’t Kiss Ass, Ynglingagatan I, Stockholm, Sweden.
Castro’s Mother Destroys Miami and Related Drawings, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, NY
Old and New, On Canvas and Paper, Galerie Bonnier, Geneva
1994
Peter Saul: Timeless Works, Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles
Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles
Martin-Rathburn Gallery, San Antonio
1993
Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York
1992
Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York
1991
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign
Political Paintings, Washington University, Saint Louis
Galerie du Centre, Paris
Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York
Tom Monahan Gallery, Chicago
1990
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin
Texas Gallery, Houston
Galerie Bonnier, Geneva
Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris
1989
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Frumkin and Struve Gallery, Chicago
Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York
1987
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
Texas Gallery, Houston
1986
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
1985
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
1984
Frumkin and Struve Gallery, Chicago
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1983
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris
1981
Kilcawley Center, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio
1980
University of Illinois, DeKalb, Illinois
Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
1976
Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, Connecticut
1973
California State University, Sacramento
Galerie Klang, Cologne
1972
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris
1971
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, Saint-Etienne, France
1969
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1968
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
California College of Arts and Crafts Gallery, Oakland
1967
Galerie de’Foscherari 60, Bologna
Wanamaker’s, Philadelphia
Contemporary Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Galerie Breteau, Paris
1966
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1965
Anne Aebels Gallery, Cologne
1964
Galerie Breteau, Paris
Notizie Gallery, Turin
Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1963
LaTartaruga Gallery, Rome
Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles
Galerie Breteau, Paris
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1962
Galerie Breteau, Paris
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1961
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962, Grey Art Museum, New York
Day for Night: New American Realism, Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica in collaboration with the Aïshti Foundation, Palazzo Barberini, Rome
Accrochage, Michael Werner Gallery, Athens
Dog Days of Summer, Timothy Taylor, New York
Celestial Songs, Venus over Manhattan, New York
John Yau: Disguise the Limit, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland
Narrative Figuration: Another Pop Language, Musée d’art de Pully
2023
The Truthful Eye: The Museum in the Second Degree, Val-de-Marne Contemporary Art Museum, Vitry-sur-Seine, Paris
Retinal Hysteria, Venus Over Manhattan, New York
Brick by Brick, Ross + Kramer, New York
2022
More psychology!, Ross + Kramer Gallery, New York
Dark Light, Realism in the Age of Post truth, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut
2021
Narrative Figuration 60s – 70s, Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York
Different strokes, Almine Rech, London
For America, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Closer to Life: Drawings and Works on Paper in the Marieluise Hessel Collection, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
Parallel Phenomena: Works on Paper by Caroll Dunham, Susan Te Kahurangi King, Gladys Nilsson and Peter Saul, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
DEEP BLUE, Hall Art Foundation, Vermont
Pop Meets Funk, John Natsoulas Center for the Arts, Davis, California
2020
Off The Walls: Gifts From Professor John A. Robertson, The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin
1986, Maruani Mercier, Brussels
Drawing 2020, Gladstone Gallery, New York
Works on Paper, Michael Werner Gallery, East Hampton
Mr. President, Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva
Portraits & Some Standing Figures, Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva
Ana Benaroya and Peter Saul: Summer-Upon-Summer-Love, Ross + Kramer Gallery, East Hampton
Global Pop Underground, Parco Museum, Tokyo
2019
Peter Saul and Erik Parker, Nanzuka, Tokyo
Body/Object, George Adams Gallery, New York
Landscape Without Boundaries, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at University of California, Davis
Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis
Paintings and Sculptures by Sally and Peter Saul, Art Museum of West Virginia University, Morgantown
Men of Steel, Women of Wonder: Modern Heroes in Contemporary Times, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville
Naturally Naked, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow
Friends and Family, Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena
Wars, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Beyond the Cape! Comics and Contemporary Art, Boca Raton Museum of Art
For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton; New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain; The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach; Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Memphis; New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe; Figge Art Museum, Davenport; Croker Art Museum, Sacramento (forthcoming); Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City (forthcoming)
Body Count, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York
The Mid Century Modern Aesthetic, Alpha 137 Gallery, New York
2018
Original Behavior, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln
Vile Bodies, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
Four Rooms, Blum & Poe, New York
Paintings, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy, The Met Breuer, New York
Summer of Love, Arts+Leisure, New York
Out of Control, Venus Over Manhattan, New York
A Universal History of Infamy: Those of This America, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
The Portrait Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Mr. Unatural and Other Works from the Allan Frumkin Gallery (1952-1987), Venus Over Manhattan, New York
Art is Where the Heart Is, Vol. 2, Galerie Droste, Paris
Staff Favorites I, Alpha 137 Gallery, New York
2017
Reconstitution, LAXART, Los Angeles
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, Blondeau & Cie, Geneva
The American Dream: American Realism 1945-2017, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden
Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason 1950-1980, The Met Breuer, New York
Nut Art, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles
Animal Farm, The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich
Marcel Duchamp: Homage to the Fountain, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York
Drawing Island, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn
Piss and Vinegar: Two Generations of Provocateurs, New York Academy of Art, New York
We Need To Talk..., Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Based on a True Story: Highlights from the di Rosa Collection, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa
Gone to Texas, Texas Gallery, Houston
(SOME)BODY, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York
2016
Character, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
It Was Never Linear: Recent Painting, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln
Human interest: Portraits From the Whitney’s Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Zoo Machine, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille
Comic Inspirations, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York
The Formative Years, George Adams Gallery, New York
Young Frankensteins, Lesley Heller, New York
Mystifiers, NCCA, Moscow
2015
#RAWHIDE, Venus Over Manhattan, New York
America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Picasso in Contemporary Art, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg
Mutated Reality, Gary Tatinsian Gallery, Moscow
Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York
Respect, CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga, Málaga
Viewer Discretion...Children of Bataille, Stux Gallery, New York
SELF: Portraits of Artists in Their Absence, National Academy Museum, New York
The Street, The Store, and the Silver Screen: Pop Art from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2014
Spaced Out: Migration to the Interior, Red Bull Studios, New York
What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art from 1960 to the Present, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence; Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Peahead, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York
Figurativos, Místicos e Revolucionários: Obras Da Coleção Treger/saint Silvestre, Oliva Creative Factory, São João de Madeira
Avec et sans peinture, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne MAC/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine
Better Than De Kooning, Villa Merkel, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar, Esslingen am Neckar
Left Coast, Third Coast, George Adams Gallery, New York
The Crystal Palace, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York
Purple States, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
Knock! Knock!, Galeria Javier López, Madrid
Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present, Leila Heller Gallery, New York
If You’re Accidentally Not Included, Don’t Worry About It, Zürcher Studio, New York; Galerie Zürcher, Paris
FAR OUT!, Marlborough, New York
2013
Tumesence, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
Peter Saul/Jim Shaw: Drawings, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Comic Future, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Nude Descending a Staircase’: An Homage, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York
De Chaissac à Hyber, parcours d’un amateur vendéen, Historial de Vendee, Le Lucs-sur-Boulogne
Arte Internacional Del Siglo Xx, Colección Brownstone, Fundación Mercedes Calles y Carlos Ballestero, Cáceres
Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out, White Flag Projects, Saint Louis
Ça grimpe, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva
Utopie picturale, La Villa Dutoit, Petit-Sacconex
Moment, Ynglingagatan 1, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
2012
Sinister Pop, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Abstract Drawings, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
RAW, Homespace Gallery, New Orleans
Under the Influence: The Comics, Edith Altschul Lehman College Gallery, Bronx
Party Headquarters: Art in the Age of Political Absurdity, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York
Visage et portrait, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva
Thanks: 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Carl Solway Gallery, Cinncinnati
Someone Else’s Dream, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
2011
Masters of Reality, Gering & Lopez Gallery, New York
Pretty on the Inside, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
2010
Ordinary Madness, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Touch and Go: Ray Yoshida and his Spheres of Influence, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago
The Visible Vagina, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Nature Once Removed, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx
Desire, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
2009
Consider the Lobster, Center for Curatorial Studies & Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Image Matter, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
The New Yorkers, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
Until the End of the World, AMP, Athens
N’importe quoi, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon
Exile on Main St., Bonnefantenmuseum, Maaastricht
Looking for Mushrooms. Beat Poets, Hippies, Radio and Minimal Art: Art and Counter Culture in San Francisco Around 1968, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2008
Bad Painting, Good Art, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
Jekyll Island, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Action/Abstraction, The Jewish Museum, New York; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Figuration Narrative, 1960-72, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris
Lots of Things Like This, Apexart, New York
2007
Mr. President, University Art Museum at Albany, Albany, New York
Summer of Love, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Exhibitionism: An exhibition of exhibitions of works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Automatic, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York
Refugees of Group Selection, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York
Paradise, Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles
Il était une fois Walt Disney, Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal, Montreal
2006
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
The Artful Jester, The Painting Center, New York; Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont
Il était une fois Walt Disney, Grand Palais, Paris
Antisocial, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain d’Auvergne, Auvergne
2005
Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Post War Draughtwomen and 1 Monitor, Meyer Riegger Gallery, Karlsruhe
Body Language, George Adams Gallery, New York
2004
Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe
The Anxious Image, The Painting Center, New York
Bush-Whack!, George Adams Gallery, New York
2003
The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
Splat, Boom, Pow, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; ICA Boston
Les Contemporains de 1960 à nos jours, Centre Pompidou, Paris
3 Pop Guys 40 Years After, Galerie du Centre, Paris
Funny Papers, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Grooves, Leo Koenig, New York
2002
Eye Infection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Jokes, Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva
2001
Self Made Men, D.C. Moore Gallery, New York
Open Ends, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2000
Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Face to Face, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1998
View: Three, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1997
Facing History, Centre Pompidou, Paris
A Show of Hands, George Adams Gallery, New York
Drawings, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
1995
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Murder, Thread Waxing Space, New York
1994
Hand Painted Pop: 1958-1962, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1989
Reagan: American Icon, Bucknell University, Lewiston, Pennsylvania
1988
Different Drummers, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
Pop Apocalypse, Gracie Mansion, New York
1987
Comic Iconoclasm, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Made in U.S.A: Art from the ‘50s and ‘60s, University of California, Berkeley; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
1986
American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Figure as Subject: The Last Decade, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1983
Red Grooms/Peter Saul: The Early Sixties, Allan Fumkin Gallery, New York
1978
Art About Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1976
72nd American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
1971
American Painting and Sculpture 1948-1969, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign
1968
Violence in Recent American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1967
Funk, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
1964
Recent American Drawings, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Pop, etc., Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Schweizergarten, Vienna
The New Realism, Municipal Museum, The Hague
67th Annual American Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1963
Forum, Abbey Saint-Pierre, Ghent
Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome
1st Salon International de Galleries-Pilotes, Musée Cantolan, Lausanne
A New Realist Supplement, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
New Directions, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco
1962
The University of Colorado, Boulder
The Society of Contemporary American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
1961
International Selection, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio
1959
Salon de Jeune Peinture, Paris